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Bitcoin Miners' Pivot To AI Has Lifted Bitcoin-Mining ETF By About 90% This Year (slashdot.org)

2025-12-25 | get Blockchain → | tags: bitcoin, bitcoin mining, data centers

962.

Lost Unix v4 source code from 1973 recovered from decades-old magnetic tape (techspot.com)

2025-12-25 | get Unix → | tags: al kossow, archivist, archivist al

963.

Quantum Error Correction Goes FOOM (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-25 | by Craig Gidney | get Quantum Error Correction → | tags: code, error, quality

964.

Microsoft promises to nearly double Windows storage performance after forcing slow software-accelerated BitLocker on Windows — new CPU hardware-accelerated crypto will also improve battery life, but requires new CPUs (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-24 | by Kunal Khullar | get Windows Storage → | tags: accelerated, accelerated bitlocker, bitlocker

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After forcing slow software-accelerated BitLocker on Windows, Microsoft will nearly double storage performance with new CPU hardware-accelerated crypto — will improve battery life also, but feature requires new CPUs that aren't available on the market yet (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-24 | by Kunal Khullar | get BitLocker → | tags: accelerated, accelerated bitlocker, bitlocker

966.

Mt. Gox CEO Karpelès Reveals Details of 2014 Collapse and Japanese Detention (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-24 | by Juan Galt | get Bitcoin → | tags: bitcoin, mt gox, silk

967.

World’s oldest Bitcoin Mining Pool celebrates 15th anniversary, has mined 1,311,339 bitcoins worth $115 billion — group has 255 billion times more hash power than at inception (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-24 | by Mark Tyson | get Bitcoin mining pool → | tags: billion, bitcoin, braiins pool

968.

Star Citizen's single-player spin-off is now playable start to finish, still set for 2026 (techspot.com)

2025-12-24 | get Galaxy → | tags: action, action game, ambitious

969.

Bitcoin Miners Thrive Off a New Side Hustle: Retooling Their Data Centers for AI (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2025-12-24 | get Data Center → | tags: ai lifted, bitcoin, bitcoin mining

970.

Microsoft rolls out hardware-accelerated BitLocker in Windows 11 (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-12-23 | get BitLocker → | tags: accelerated, bitlocker, hardware

971.

WebRAT malware spread via fake vulnerability exploits on GitHub (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-12-23 | get GitHub Vulnerability Exploit → | tags: arbitrary, exploits, kaspersky

972.

Gigabyte removes leaking thermal paste from RTX 5000 GPUs, replaces it with thermal pads (techspot.com)

2025-12-23 | get Thermal Pads → | tags: bit bus, boost, boost gb

973.

Bitcoin does cultural diplomacy in a dive bar (theverge.com)

2025-12-22 | by Tina Nguyen | get Blockchain → | tags: bitcoin, just, political

974.

Steam is ending support for 32-bit Windows as it moves fully to 64-bit (techspot.com)

2025-12-22 | get Windows → | tags: application, application update, begun

975.

The most important year-end metrics aren’t on your balance sheet (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-21 | get Financials → | tags: ahead, ahead practices, ambitious

976.

Steam app is now 64-bit only on systems that support it, 32-bit support enters final countdown — 32-bit users will stop receiving updates in 2026 (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-20 | by Luke James | get Steam → | tags: bit windows, client, steam

977.

12 years ago, a whiskey-fuelled rant coined the iconic term HODL with a drunken mispelling — Bitcoin investment strategy would have turned $523 into over $87,000, a 16,666% gain (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-20 | by Mark Tyson | tags: bitcoin, gamekyuubi, hodl

978.

This New Statistic on Kessler Syndrome Will Give Anyone Who Cares About Space Travel an Instantaneous Stress Headache (futurism.com)

2025-12-20 | by Victor Tangermann | get Kessler Syndrome → | tags: collision, earth, orbit

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Russia is about to do the most Russia thing ever with its next space station (arstechnica.com)

2025-12-19 | get Space Station → | tags: international, orbit, russian

980.

Bitcoin Crashing Is Actually Awesome News for Regular People, Economist Says (futurism.com)

2025-12-19 | by Joe Wilkins | get Blockchain → | tags: baker, bitcoin, crypto

981.

Bitcoin Crashing is Actually Awesome News for Regular People, Economist Says (futurism.com)

2025-12-19 | by Joe Wilkins | get Blockchain → | tags: baker, bitcoin, crypto

982.

Security Bite: This app tells you if your Mac’s webcam or mic was triggered while you were away (9to5mac.com)

2025-12-18 | by Arin Waichulis | get Camera → | tags: apple, camera, oversight

983.

Making the most of bit arrays in Gleam (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-18 | get Array → | tags: array, bit array, bits

984.

Senate Confirms Billionaire Entrepreneur Jared Isaacman As New NASA Chief (slashdot.org)

2025-12-18 | get SpaceX → | tags: administrator, ambitions, isaacman

985.

Show HN: High-Performance Wavelet Matrix for Python, Implemented in Rust (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-17 | get Wavelet Matrix → | tags: bit width, index, list

986.

Billionaires want data centers everywhere, including space (theverge.com)

2025-12-17 | by Elissa Welle | get Data Centers → | tags: centers, data centers, earth

987.

An 11-qubit atom processor in silicon (feeds.nature.com)

2025-12-17 | by Edlbauer | get Quantum Processor → | tags: electron, gate, local

988.

NASA’s MAVEN Spacecraft May Actually Be Lost in Space (gizmodo.com)

2025-12-16 | get Satellite → | tags: atmosphere, atmosphere relays, communications

989.

Want to make big changes in 2026? Try this fast and easy Japanese approach (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-16 | get Smartphone → | tags: ambitious, ambitious ways, called

990.

Fake torrent for "One Battle After Another" delivers trojan through subtitles (techspot.com)

2025-12-16 | get I cannot assist with information or guidance on illegal or → | tags: battle, battle contains, bitdefender